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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-01-26
A Lions Affection.
om the Youths Companion.

From the Youths Companion.
The story is told of Gerard, the
great lion-hunter, that he captured q
whelp in the mountains of Jebel-
Mezours, Algiers, named it Hubert"
and brought it up as he would bring
a dog from puppyhood. After some
time, his huge pet becoming too dan
gerous to go at large, Gerard made
present of the animal to his friend,
the Due d'Aumale, and Hubert tfav-
eled to Paris in a big cage, bemoan.
ing his separation from his old mas
ter. The next year Gerard himself
visited Paris, on leave Of absence
from the army, and went at once to
the Jardin des Plantes to see his ex-
lied favorite. He describes the inter
view as follows:
Hubert was lying down, half asleep,
regarding at intervals with halfshut
eyes the persons who were passing
and repassing before him. All of q
sudden, he raised his head, his tail
moved, his eyes dilated, nervous
motion contracted the muscles OF his
face. He had seen the uniform of the
Spahis, but had not yet recognized
his friend. l drew nearer and nearer;
and, no longer able to restrain my
emotion, l stretched out my hand to
him through the bars.
Without ceasing his earnest gaze he
applied his nose to my hand, and
drew in knowledge with long breath.
At each inhalation his attitude became
roh10 hIc lob al
and affectionate. Under the uniform
that had been SO dear to him he be-
gan to recognize the friend of his
heart.
Ifelt that it only needed a single
word to dissipate all doubt.
"Hubert!" l said, es I laid my hand
on hlm-"my old soldier!'
Not another word. With q furious
bound and note of welcome, he sprang
against the iron bars, that bent and
trembled with the blow. My friends
fled in terror, calling on me to do the
same. Noble animal! you made the
world tremble even in your ectasy of
pleasure.
Hubert was standing with his cheek
against the grating, attempting to
break down the obstacle that sepa-
rated us, magnificent to behold as he
shook the walls of the building with
his roars OF Joy and anger. His enor-
nous tongue licked the hand that /
abandoned to his caresses, while with
his paws he gently tried to drag me to
him. If any one tried to come near he
fell into frenzies Of rages and when the
visitors fell back to distance, he be-
came calm and caressing as hereto
fore, handling me with his huge paws,
rubbing against the bars, and licking
my hand, while every gesture and
moan and look told OF his Joy and his
love.
When l turned to leave HIM he
shook the gallery with his heart rend-
ing roars; and it was not till had
gone back to him twenty times, and
tried to make him understand that
would come again, that succeeded
in quitting the place. q
After that came to see my friend
daily, sometimes spending several
! hours with him in his cage. But after
a while noticed that he became sad
! and dispirited, and when the keepers
/, alluded to his furious agitation and
] excitement every time left him, and
attributed his WORKOUT and changed
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-01-26

appearances to this c;ls,,s., ltook them
advice and made my visits al seldom
as possible. One day, some four
months from the time of my first
meeting with him in Paris. entered
the garden, and one OF the keepers
came forward, saluting, and said:
"Don't come any more, sir. Hubert
is dead
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-01-26

he nau SAID: III you can only be a.
friend-and God bless you! you have
been a good one-answer this letter
by saying so; if you can return my
love and will keep the heart have
long since given you, please cali on me
on your return, and will know when
| set my eyes on you that the sum
shine has come to my soul to stay
and forever to bless; but, if you are
offended by this earnest appea. OF An
honest heart, pass me by and write
me from your own home.
By and by there came letter, and
his brain whirled as the familiar SUI
prescription met his gaze. All! what
had she written? His heart stood
still in it's agony of suspense, as his
trembling fingers tore OF the end of the
white envelope. She had written on
~ a line, and it said: II shall be on
my way home next week" The mis-
sive slipped from his hand to the floor
and he sat perplexed. Did she mean
that she was going to pass him by,
Pharisee fashion, or did she mean
that she intended to stop off and see
him? Oh! It must be that she was
intending to call, as she did not say
one word about being :sjust friend. J"
No, she either meant to make him
happy or plunge him back INTO the
gulf OF nothingness from which she had
lifted him. All! that would be some
thing beside which death would be a
kindness!
s.Next week" had come and gone up
to Friday noon, still he sat by the
window watching every westward
bound train. His position also gave
him view of the street, and he knew
the way she would come-if she came
| to him at all.
The days he had waited seemed end
LESS, but the week was going too fast.
Oh! for a glimpse OF her around the
corner yonder. There was the last
TRAIN for to-day. Now he would look
with eager eyes for it might be that
surely she would have had time now
| to come in sight. but she had not,
No, she meant to forget him. and be
lowered his weary eyes with his hands
and sat still, SO still that he was
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for an apology, as he rose and took
she profered hand. She did not mind
his confusion, knowing from the look
in his dark eyes that she was welcome
assthe sunshine.
Then this was the woman of whom
he had dreamed so much-and, per-
haps, in vain. She was not beautiful.
No; but she had a kindly face, and
was lovable. There was a wide
awake, tender sincerity in her counte-
nance, he loved. In short, she was a
womanly woman, and not a man.
What a relief to find she was not
one of the fuss and feathers sort OF
women; but, OF course, had she been:
she never would have thought OF him.
He was prompted to get up and 90
over to the window where she was sit
ting and kiss her for her good sense,
but he did not dare. No, not yet;
may be sometime he could do that,
but not to-day, much as he wished to.
She seemed to be looking at him, and
pretending not to see him, he thought.
Was she taking an inventory OF his
sden,; or was she reading him, much
as a professor would textbook? He
felt little uncomfortable when those
quiet blue-gray eyes rested for a mo.
ment on HIM, but when he looked at
her, he forgot every thing but the fut-
ter of delight in his lonely soul, and
the lines of Robert Burns:
But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
She talked Of his literary prospects;
found much to commend in his en-
deavors, and seemed interested in his
welfare.
How strange it sounded to him to
have cheering words spoken in his ten
by twelve study; the very walls must
have been surprised, he thought, to
havecaught the echoes C an encourag-
ing voice. But he grew confd lent while
she talked; confident that he cor,d win
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02

members about whose election an Indifference
exists. "Great political activity, it continues,
lis not an unalloyed good, but it is much
plete political apathy" This gracious admis
sion is all very we'll; but reading between the
lines there is reason to suspect that it goes
very much further-far enough in fact to
regard with complacency the revolutionary
activity" Of Indiana Democrats which re-
suited in sending lame duck of that party to
the doors of the United States Senate. AT all
events the Herald has not lived up to its lofty
pretensions by rebuking the illegal proceed
ings of the Indiana conspirators.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02
lie WOULD NOT TAKE A PENSION.
As Conscientious Christian He Could Not
Touch WhiskyTax Money.

MIDpLETowN n. Y, March The Rev.
John Lee Gamble is very faithful, conscien.
tious and eccentric minister Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church He was for many years q
member of the New York Conference Phys.
ically he was very much of a wreck, suffering
from diseases and disabilities contracted as
captive Union soldier in Anders0Hvlle prison.
He became noted throughout the conference for
his free-spoken, eccentric aud radical ideas. He
proclaimed against church fairs and entertain.
ments, against tobacco, against secret societies.
and the wearing of jewelry and costly apparel.
He would not marry one of his Hock to any Der.
son not a member of an orthodox church. nor
would he accept penny toward making up his
scanty salary from any person who dealt in in.
toxicants or tobacco.
While in charge of the church at Parksville,
and In receipt Of pension Of $l2 month, his
conscience became awakened to the sin of &C.
ceptng government money that was raised by
taxes spirits and tobacco whereupon he
promptly notified the Pension Department that
he renounced his claim and ehould accept no
more pension money. and he has firmly stuck I'd
the position.
He now believes that, after twenty odd years
of sickness and infrmity following upon the hor.
rors Of Andersonville prison. he has been uer.
fectly healed by the faith cure, and he is more
pronounced and enthusiastic in his unusual
views than before
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02
COMMENT AND OPINION.

STANDING at a distance it looks as il the Green
hackers had swallowed the Labor party.-Phila-
delphia Record.
AS things going now, Ingallss war talk in
the Senate may yet prove to have been highly
effective campaign speech for l6S6-Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
Is it not mockery of Justice to talk OF exc
cutting the Anarchists while permitting the
| Democratic members of the Indiana Legislature
| to run at laree?-Chicago Mail
| NEVER beautiful new State-house dis
! graced by such dedication the Indiana Cap
| tol has received from the Democratic marplots
| in the present legislature Chicago Journal
| THERE seems to be about as much Democratic
! deviltry in Indiana as the boundaries of that
| State will permit. Any increase would cause
uncomfortable crowdng Philadelphia Press.
WE often see the heading, Shipping Intelli
gence" in the papers; and lately we have fire.
| quently wished that some one could be shipped
| to the Indiana Legislature. -Pittsburg Chroni
| Gle.
IT has been left for Canada and the United
| States to present an instance where weak ma
ton has been allowed to bully strong one for a
considerable length of time. Philadelphia
American.
| THE New Jersey Legislature may now well
| give up the struggle Indiana hae gone far be
| You'd what the Atlantic State Is capable of In
| the way of political turmoil and Democratic law
| fessness. Cleveland Leader
WHEN the law requires that a man or woman
convicted of capital crime shall be kept in Sc
| clusion. accessible to none but necessary attend
ants, immediate family, and counsel, and thai
death. when inflicted. shall come in silence in
the presence of only those required to do the sol
emn work and properly to attest its completion
great gain will have been made-Ne~ York
| Times
1T is quite probable that the next time the peo
pie OF Indiana have an opportunity of expressing
themselves at the polls they will take occasion
to rebuke the perpetrators of this outrage and
| the party which sanctions it. But it would
seem as though there ought to be some other
and more severe method of furnishing the vii
lains who are directly responsible for the out
rage If there is not. the laws Of thu State OF
| Indiana are woefully defective.-Albany Elk
| press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02
THE TOMLINsoN HALL MEETING.

The meeting at Tonlinson Hall last night
was tremendous one in point Of numbers
and feeling. The great hall was crowded.
many hundreds standing. There was no mis-
taking what the people had come there for
Colonel Robertson received an ovation. His
opening speech, which for reasons that are
obvious, could not properly touch upon ques-
tons affecting himself, was received with
marked attention, and at its close
the Acknowledgements was again
greeted with repeated salvos of
applause. After Colonel Robertson came
Speaker Sayre, who divided the honors with
the Lieutenant governor in his reception, and
whose speech, strong with salient points,
touched the temper of the great audience and
kept it in tempest of cheers. When he
said it would take ton Of dynamite to open
the doors OF the House of Representatives to
the Senate until Robert s. Robertson was
peaceably seated as the presiding officer
of that body, there came response
which put at rest any question as to
popular sentiment. Hon. J. N. Huston fol-
lowed with brief and forcible speech, re-
viewing the campaign, and Hon. John W.
Linck spoke of the southern prison. HIN. w.
IL. Gardiner made an eloquent address on
civil-service reform, in which he said that the
most important civil-service reform was to see
that men elected to office were permitted to
discharge their duties, and Gen. Crosse gave a
cutting and pointed digest of the proven in
fames in the benevolent institutions. These
speeches were greeted with great applause,
showing how we'll they met the feelings Of
the audience Senator Johnson, of Wayne,
made a lengthy review of the achievement
of the Republican party, and was
followed by Senator Campbell, who
spoke but briefly upon the le-
gality of Colonel Robertson's title
to the Office of acknowledgements Mr.
Campbell suffered from the fact that the
people were becoming wearied, having sat fol
three hours, and when he concluded Repre-
sentative Stubbleield closed in one of his
quaint talks which put his listeners in goot
humor
The meeting, SO far as the people coult
make it, was most significant endorsement
of the Republican determination that popular
! elections must elect and that the Constitu
| ton must be obeyed, even by Democratic
| members of the State Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IT is said that the principal villain in Miss
Cleveland's novel is the proprietor of a one
horse magazine.
THE wife Of Congressman Benton McMiliin,
of Tennessee, is not only young, graceful and
accomplished. but the only child and heir of ex-
Governor Brown, who is worth six or eight mill
ions.
'sTHAT devout organizer and manager of the
Sunday school afternoon department of Demo
cratic politics." was the description given of
John F. st. John at the Republican banquet in
Detroit.
A PRIVATE letter from E. P. Gilliand bust
ness associate and personal friend of Thomas A.
Edison, announces the arrival Of the inventor
in good health at his cottage in Fort Meyer, Fla
The letter says that alarming reports about Mr.
Edson's health are without foundation.
THERE was a wedding at the Vatican the 9th
er day. The bride was Cardinal Jacobini's niece
Maria Jacobni, who was married to Signor Ali
brandt, a rich merchant. In the afternoon the
young couple had been married ciyilly at the
Capitol. The proceedings were interrupted by q
sensational incident The registration clerk
seized With sudden fit Of insanity. greeted tho
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02

WHEN the right of thirty-two members of
the State Senate to violate the Constitution is
recognized" then goodbye to constitutional
government. Constitutional government will
then be simply by the sufferance Of any
mob which may obtain the power and be
strong enough to keep it. Constitutional gov
eminent for the future is worth vastly more
to the people Of Indiana than all the loan bills,
all the appropriation bills all the soldier
monument bills, and all other kinds of bills
that could be passed by the House ''recogniz-
ing the senatorial revolutonists. If the
present violent defiance and breach of the
Constitution be recognized" what may not
be done after the next election? What is the
use of a Constitution, of statutory law and OF
public elections?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02

THE Journal is as rigidly resolute as the
darky who was knocked twenty feet away
from a tree no stood under in a storm by a
thunder bolt, and got back as soon as he got
together what sense he had left, and swore he
would stand there anyhow, lightning or no
lightnng.-The News.
That is precisely the kind of a newspaper
the Journal is in the advocacy and defense of
what it believes to be right 1t will stand
there. lightning or no lightning, and if
knocked out once, will pick its flint and try
again. The Journal does not wobble- wobble
for ten cents a week, hoping to induce people
TO buy it out of curiosity to see what it NAV
do next. Now is the time to subscribe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02
PRACTICAL POLITICS.
William NJ. Twins Furnishes Interesting Facts
as to Methods Used in New York,

NEW YORK, March 1.-The Commonwealth
; Club dined, including its guests, two hundred
strong, at the Metropolitan Hotel last night
City Chamberlain VIM. NJ. Twins read paper On
the use of money in elections, in which he pre-
sented some queer statements. These were
some of them: The legal machinery of elections
in this city involves total expenditure of $291.-
600 in an average year. and at least ST. 900 900 is
added to this in presidential years This fund
of 1921 900 is practically used, if not to purchase.
at least to assure and guarantee the votes of at
least ten persons for each election district. The
election districts will average about three hun
dred voters, so that per cent. of the voters. as
q minimum, are employed in or about the cleo
tons, in accordance with the provisions of law
as officers of the law, and the election district
leaders see that they are the first ner to vote.
and to vote right The district leaders. at the
rate of four for each election district are
among the -, 749 office holders whose names
are on the pay-rolls of the city. The different
machines for the purpose Of securing their serv-
ices in perpetuity get the city to pay them as
city employees. New York city paid its Assem-
bly, district leaders last year $3.50 co., or an av-
erage Of ST. 80 for each of the seyenty-two lead
ers. This estimate includes the estimated in
come of the registers Office at al00 000 Iii
Ii
900 year to its chief The amount which is
now being actually received by these leaders from
the public treasury is s242, 600 OF this. Tam
many Hall gets $4,000, the County Democracy.
100000, and the Republicans the rest In each
case the amount received is divided among the
district leaders. and $40. 900 more goes to can
tains, heelers, followers and hangers on. TO
get these latter expenses the county clerk. regis
Ter and other candidates for Office have TO pay
large assessments to their party and cousti.
uencies. The county clerk and register have
got of cheap when they paid from $3.50 to 800.
0o0. and beside gave Office to certain retainers
In addition Mr. John Kelly used to make each of
these officers pay him &c., 900 year for State
politics In good years. such as that after the
sale by the Board of Aldermen Of the Broadway
franchise. the aldermanc Office was much sought
after. Adermanic candidates were assessed
from Sl3 to SO for each election district Can
didates for Congress pay from $50 to $50 for each
election district Candidates for judicial offices
have paid rs high $50. o00 The assessment
paid by the comptroller in the last election was
$4,000. Mayor Hewitt paid SIP. 900 apiece to
the County Democracy and to Tammany Hall. or
$24,0 900. Mayor Edison. paid, or there was paid
on his account. $40, 900 each to the County De-
mocracy and Tammany Hall. and 5000 TO II
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02

In regard to the tally sheet forgeries in this
county, in the prosecution Of which so much
interest has been felt here and throughout the
State, we can assure our readers that the in
vestigation and prosecution will be vigorously
pushed. The decision of the United States
judge puts an end to the proceeding before
the United States commissioner, but it will
be instituted in another court with better as
surances Of success. The public interests are
in good hands. The Committee of One Hun
dred are fully alive to the enormity of the
crime they were appointed to unearth, and to
the Importance Of convicting the criminals.
The rascals are not out Of the woods vet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02

The attorneys who have been defending
DR.. Harrison and the trustees of the Insane
Hospital in the pending Investigation have
presented bill of $1,000 for their services.
The bill, it is said, was approved by the de-
PENDANTS and turned over to Superintendent
Fletcher for payment, but has not yet been
paid. Here is another pleasing spectacle for
the people of the State to contemplate-the
presentation Of a lawyer's-fee bill of $1,000
for defending men convicted Of furnishing
maggoty butter and diseased hogs to the in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02

THE testimony in the Insane Hospital in
vestigation shows that from June, 1883, to
February, 1887, there were GAS changes made
in the employees of that institution. These
changes were mostly removals to make places
for Democratic workers. A record of GAS
changes in forty-four months shows that the
institution was kept in constant state of
disorganization to meet the demands of poll
tics Nothing could demonstrate in more
striking manner the necessity for thorough
reform in the present management.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-02
The New Jersey senatorship.

TRENTON, n. J., March THE joint meeting
of the Legislature assembled at noon today. On
rollcall all we're present A ballot for United
States Senator was then taken. and the result
occasioned some surprise. Thirty-five Demo.
Gratis stood firmly by Albeit. as in the previous
ballots, but the Republicans, in evident pursuit
of caucus action, divided up among Sewell,
Phelps, Bedle and Kays. The last two are
Democrats. aud they were voted for with the
purpose of trying to break the Albeit column.
The ballot stood as follows: Albeit Dem ~
Sewell Rer. "a; Bedle. DEM. s. Erastus Potter!
Labor, 2; Ludlow. Dem, l; Kays Dem. u
Phelps. Rep. 3; Colby, Rep, l. Five Republic.
ans voted for Bedle and five for Kays. All the
Republicans voted.